Java Job Trends in Croydon

Java
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Java skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 5 11
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 35 22 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 45.45% 24.72% 13.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 85.37% 68.75% 33.82%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 4
10th Percentile - £70,750 £76,500
25th Percentile - £77,500 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £82,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +32.00%
75th Percentile - £83,750 £85,938
90th Percentile - - £87,625
South London median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year - -5.71% +45.83%

All Programming Languages
Croydon

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Croydon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 41 32 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 53.25% 35.96% 40.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3 10 42
10th Percentile £35,250 £51,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £43,125 £59,688 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £82,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.30% +50.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £69,375 £83,750 £74,063
90th Percentile £75,750 £83,975 £83,750
South London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +13.04% -

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Croydon

Java
Salary Trend in Croydon

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Java

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (20.00%) JBoss
1 7 (20.00%) Red Hat Fuse
2 2 (5.71%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 35 (100.00%) AWS
2 32 (91.43%) Amazon ECS
2 32 (91.43%) Amazon EKS
2 32 (91.43%) Serverless
3 26 (74.29%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (11.43%) Amazon S3
5 3 (8.57%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (8.57%) AWS KMS
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon Glacier
6 2 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) DNS
1 2 (5.71%) FTP
1 2 (5.71%) HTTP
1 2 (5.71%) SMTP
1 2 (5.71%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (94.29%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (91.43%) Relational Database
3 23 (65.71%) RDBMS
4 3 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 35 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 31 (88.57%) JUnit
3 24 (68.57%) Mockito
4 23 (65.71%) JMeter
5 10 (28.57%) Git
6 2 (5.71%) Subversion
6 2 (5.71%) Vagrant
7 1 (2.86%) DbUnit
7 1 (2.86%) jMock
7 1 (2.86%) Maven
7 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (88.57%) Public Sector
2 4 (11.43%) Organisational Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (94.29%) Developer
1 33 (94.29%) Java Developer
2 16 (45.71%) Full-Stack Developer
2 16 (45.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 9 (25.71%) Mid-Level Java Developer
4 2 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 1 (2.86%) Senior
5 1 (2.86%) Senior Developer
5 1 (2.86%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (2.86%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (94.29%) REST
1 33 (94.29%) Spring
1 33 (94.29%) Web Services
2 32 (91.43%) Spring Boot
3 30 (85.71%) Apache Camel
4 24 (68.57%) ActiveMQ
4 24 (68.57%) Hibernate
5 23 (65.71%) HTML
5 23 (65.71%) jQuery
5 23 (65.71%) WireMock
6 16 (45.71%) JSON
6 16 (45.71%) XML
7 8 (22.86%) RESTful
7 8 (22.86%) SOAP
8 7 (20.00%) J2EE
9 2 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (5.71%) Kafka
9 2 (5.71%) Mustache
9 2 (5.71%) Node.js
9 2 (5.71%) React
Miscellaneous
1 33 (94.29%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.71%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
1 2 (5.71%) VMS
1 2 (5.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) Agile
2 33 (94.29%) Microservices
2 33 (94.29%) TDD
3 31 (88.57%) BDD
4 25 (71.43%) CI/CD
5 23 (65.71%) Process Management
5 23 (65.71%) Workflow
6 17 (48.57%) Scrum
7 16 (45.71%) Full-Stack Development
8 15 (42.86%) Kanban
9 10 (28.57%) SDLC
10 9 (25.71%) DevOps
11 7 (20.00%) Architectural Design
11 7 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
12 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
13 2 (5.71%) Biometrics
13 2 (5.71%) Cloud Security
13 2 (5.71%) OO
13 2 (5.71%) Process Improvement
13 2 (5.71%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 25 (71.43%) JavaScript
1 25 (71.43%) Python
2 23 (65.71%) Shell Script
3 2 (5.71%) C#
3 2 (5.71%) Groovy
3 2 (5.71%) Perl
3 2 (5.71%) Ruby
4 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 16 (45.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (91.43%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 32 (91.43%) Kubernetes
2 23 (65.71%) Kibana
3 7 (20.00%) Ansible
4 2 (5.71%) Nagios
4 2 (5.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (65.71%) Dynatrace
1 23 (65.71%) Splunk
2 2 (5.71%) Oracle